[Twisted-Python] SSH agent

[stefan.lange at ubs.com]

Thanks, you are certainly right. 
I was first concerned about security implications when directly reading in the private key instead of accessing an SSH agent but on second thought there seems no difference security wise.
Got the slightly modified example working, following your advice.

Another question:
Is there already functionality in Twisted for using Kerberos for SSH authentication?

Regards,
stefan

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:twisted-python-bounces at twistedmatrix.com]On Behalf Of Paul
Swartz
Sent: 27 August 2007 14:41
To: Twisted general discussion
Subject: Re: [Twisted-Python] SSH agent


On 8/27/07, stefan.lange at ubs.com <stefan.lange at ubs.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I want to use a scripted approach for executing different sorts of tasks on a couple of machines, initiated from 1 central machine.
> The administrative user should get prompted for the SSH passphrase only once (at start of the script), from then on the script should run unattended, without requiring further interactive input.
> Would you estimate the subset of SSH agent functionality implemented in Conch is sufficient for this? Which features are missing?

If that's all you want, you don't need an agent at all.  Just decrypt
the key (see t.c.ssh.keys.getPrivateKeyObject) and then implement
something like doc/conch/examples/sshsimpleclient.py using that
decrypted key.

-p
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